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Essential Updates Required

What it needs: The house requires new plumbing and wiring and updates to the heating system. A leaking portion of the roof needs repair. A pending master plan for Danville will likely include incentives to finish returning the house, one of the town's most historic, back to the gracious single-family home it was meant to be.

Shown: The living room's oak fireplace surround was likely added a few decades after the original construction.